State Upholds Suspension Of Club's Liquor License

February 23, 1993|By Hal Dardick.

Aurora — The state Liquor Control Commission on Monday released a ruling that upholds Aurora Mayor David Pierce's 30-day suspension of The Shore Club's liquor license.

Pierce, acting as city liquor commissioner, suspended the license in November after determining three underage individuals drank alcohol in the bar on the June 1992 night a drunken 19-year-old youth killed himself while driving home from the bar.

According to Pierce's ruling, the youth, Michael D. "Mick" Helms, and two underage friends were served alcohol in the bar on the night Helms crashed his Jeep. He died from head injuries the next day.

The state commission ordered that The Shore Club, a downtown riverfront tavern, close from March 18 to April 17.

The Shore Club owner, Al Heriaud, who is president of a local liquor association, has 20 days to appeal the commission's order to the Circuit Court, if he chooses to do so.

Heriaud has said Pierce's administration has been unfair to him because it did not prosecute any of the teenagers who, according to testimony at the local liquor hearing, used fake identification cards at The Shore Club the night Helms died.